aha/drivers/s390
Martin Peschke 86e8dfc560 [SCSI] zfcp: fix cleanup of dismissed error recovery actions
Calling zfcp_erp_strategy_check_action() after zfcp_erp_action_to_running()
in zfcp_erp_strategy() might cause an unbalanced up() for erp_ready_sem,
which makes the zfcp recovery fail somewhere along the way:

erp thread processing erp_action:
|
|	someone waking up erp thread for erp_action
|	|
|	|		someone else dismissing erp_action:
|	|		|
V	V		V

	write_lock_irqsave(&adapter->erp_lock, flags);
	...
	if (zfcp_erp_action_exists(erp_action) == ZFCP_ERP_ACTION_RUNNING) {
		zfcp_erp_action_to_ready(erp_action);
		up(&adapter->erp_ready_sem);	/* first up() for erp_action */
	}
	write_unlock_irqrestore(&adapter->erp_lock, flags);

write_lock_irqsave(&adapter->erp_lock, flags);
...
zfcp_erp_action_to_running(erp_action);
write_unlock_restore(&adapter->erp_lock, flags);
/* processing erp_action */

			write_lock_irqsave(&adapter->erp_lock, flags);
			...
			erp_action->status |= ZFCP_STATUS_ERP_DISMISSED;
			if (zfcp_erp_action_exists(erp_action) ==
						ZFCP_ERP_ACTION_RUNNING) {
				zfcp_erp_action_to_ready(erp_action);
				up(&adapter->erp_ready_sem);
				/* second, unbalanced up() for erp_action */
			}
			...
			write_unlock_restore(&adapter->erp_lock, flags);

write_lock_irqsave(&adapter->erp_lock, flags);
if (erp_action->status & ZFCP_STATUS_ERP_DISMISSED) {
	zfcp_erp_action_dequeue(erp_action);
	retval = ZFCP_ERP_DISMISSED;
}
...
write_unlock_restore(&adapter->erp_lock, flags);
down(&adapter->erp_ready_sem);
/* this down() is meant to balance the first up() */

The erp thread must not dismiss an erp_action after moving that action to
erp_running_head. Instead it should just go through the down() operation,
which balances the first up(), and run through zfcp_erp_strategy one more
time for the second up(), which eventually cleans up erp_action. Which
is similar to the normal processing of an event for erp_action doing
something asynchronously (e.g. waiting for the completion of an fsf_req).

This only works if we make sure that a dismissed erp_action is passed to
zfcp_erp_strategy() prior to the other action, which caused actions to be
dismissed. Therefore the patch implements this rule: running actions go to
the head of the ready list; new actions go to the tail of the ready list;
the erp thread picks actions to be processed from the ready list's head.

Signed-off-by: Martin Peschke <mp3@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Swen Schillig <swen@vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2007-11-16 13:03:21 -06:00
..
block [S390] device_schedule_callback() for dcssblk. 2007-11-05 11:10:16 +01:00
char [S390] struct class_device -> struct device conversion. 2007-10-22 12:52:48 +02:00
cio [S390] Fix priority mistakes in drivers/s390/cio/cmf.c 2007-11-05 11:10:17 +01:00
crypto Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6 2007-10-12 15:49:37 -07:00
net [S390] Fix smsgiucv init on no iucv machines 2007-11-05 11:10:16 +01:00
scsi [SCSI] zfcp: fix cleanup of dismissed error recovery actions 2007-11-16 13:03:21 -06:00
ebcdic.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
Makefile [S390] Calibrate delay and bogomips. 2007-02-05 21:18:31 +01:00
s390_rdev.c [PATCH] s390: kzalloc() conversion in drivers/s390 2006-03-24 07:33:18 -08:00
s390mach.c [S390] cio: replace subchannel evaluation queue with bitmap 2007-04-27 16:01:40 +02:00
s390mach.h [S390] ETR support. 2007-02-05 21:18:19 +01:00
sysinfo.c [S390] Processor degradation notification. 2007-04-27 16:01:46 +02:00